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In place Raspberry Pi encryption

I recently had to figure out a way to encrypt a raspberry pi which was being used as a server. The catch? It has to be headless from boot. This meant I had to set up a way to ssh in during the boot process in order to input the

By Cai Strickland 27 Aug 2025

Zabbix triggers from windows task scheduler

Let's say you have a scheduled task that you need to make sure runs each time it's meant to. Windows Task Scheduler has the ability to log it's tasks and whether they runs successfully or not. As Zabbix supports reading windows event logs I

By Cai Strickland 09 Jan 2025

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Batch convert .xls to .xlsx

Ran into an issue today where a colleague needed to convert a bunch of .xls files in subfolders to .xlsx. Found a script as follows on superuser.com and slightly modified it to save in the source folder: Get-ChildItem -Recurse *.xls | ForEach-Object {&"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.

By Cai Strickland 19 Sep 2024
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Hello World

So I finally got around to making myself a website. This is being served by Ghost CMS running on an Ubuntu VPS hosted by Hetzner. Eventually I want to move it all to a self-hosted server running in my home but for now we don't have space. As

By Cai Strickland 06 Sep 2024
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